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Spotify: Face the Music
Sastre Boquet, Isaac; Vroom, GovertCase SM-1613-EStrategyThe case describes the business model of Spotify, setting it against the backdrop of a music industry that has faced steep revenue declines since the advent of digital formats in the late 1990s and the rise of illegal file sharing. The case also presents the competition Spotify is facing from the likes of Pandora, Google and Apple and eventually poses the question of whether Spotify has a viable long-term business model despite explosive user and...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music - Teaching Note
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-104-EStrategyStarting at €0.00
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2016): Facing Increased Competition
Sastre Boquet, Isaac; Vroom, GovertCase SM-1642-EStrategyThe case describes the business model of Spotify, setting it against the backdrop of a music industry that has faced steep revenue declines since the advent of digital formats in the late 1990s and the rise of illegal file sharing. The case also presents the competition Spotify is facing from the likes of Pandora, Google and Apple and eventually poses the question of whether Spotify has a viable long-term business model despite explosive user and...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2016) - Teaching Note: Facing Increased Competition
Sastre Boquet, Isaac; Vroom, GovertTeaching Note SMT-112-EStrategyThe case describes the business model of the music streaming company Spotify, setting it against the backdrop of a music industry that had faced steep revenue declines since the advent of digital formats in the late 1990s and the rise of illegal file sharing. The case also presents the competition Spotify faces from the likes of Pandora, Google and Apple and asks whether Spotify has a viable long-term business model despite its explosive user and...Starting at €0.00
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2018): Seeking Profitability
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1657-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategySpotify reached $3 billion in revenues in 2016, amid a booming music-streaming market that now made up 51% of the U.S. music industry's total revenues. Finally the industry had embraced digitization and was now seeing two-digit growth for the first time in decades. However, that growth had an Achilles' heel. Spotify itself was staring at an operating loss of $350 million, having never been able to post a profit in all its years of existence. Now,...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2018) - Teaching Note: Seeking Profitability
Sastre Boquet, Isaac; Vroom, GovertTeaching Note SMT-119-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategySpotify reached $3 billion in revenues in 2016, amid a booming music-streaming market that now made up 51% of the U.S. music industry's total revenues. Finally the industry had embraced digitization and was now seeing two-digit growth for the first time in decades. However, that growth had an Achilles' heel. Spotify itself was staring at an operating loss of $350 million, having never been able to post a profit in all its years of existence. Now,...Starting at €0.00
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2021)
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, Isaac; Deshmane, AbhishekCase SM-1709-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyBy 2021, streaming had become "the" way to consume music, revitalizing an industry that was seeing double digit growth rates for the first time since the 1990s. And with its 155 million paid subscribers and 355 million total users, Spotify was undisputedly the most popular music streaming service in the world - for the year of 2020, it posted record revenues of 7.88 billion. Yet, despite those numbers, in all its history, Spotify had never been ...Starting at €8.20
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2021) - Teaching Note
Vroom, Govert; Sastre Boquet, IsaacTeaching Note SMT-139-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and Change, StrategyBy 2021, streaming had become "the" way to consume music, revitalizing an industry that was seeing double digit growth rates for the first time since the 1990s. And with its 155 million paid subscribers and 355 million total users, Spotify was undisputedly the most popular music streaming service in the world - for the year of 2020, it posted record revenues of 7.88 billion. Yet, despite those numbers, in all its history, Spotify had never been ...Starting at €0.00
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Spotify: Face the Music (Update 2024)
Vroom, Govert; Isaac Sastre BoquetCase SM-1761-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, StrategyThe year 2023 was another remarkable one for Spotify. Once more, the company reported record figures in both revenue ($13.1 billion) and users, boasting 236 million premium subscribers and 602 million total monthly active users. However, 2023 was also remarkable in another sense, as the company marked a turning point. After years focused on what Daniel Ek had referred to as "growth, growth, growth," Spotify witnessed three rounds of layoffs over...Starting at €8.20